Desert Pegasus

June 4, 2010

By Anonymous, Santa Margarita, CA

The author's comments:

I wrote this on October 26, 2007, the day my first horse, Sally, died. I wrote this poem in her honor.

Sally girl Run with the wind Beautiful Sally girl Fly with the hawks of the western sky Frolic in that desert with that fire that burned in your eyes Let you hoof beats be the whisper of the leaves as you gallop through the midnight skies Let the summer’s evening breeze fly you high Let me run with you as you gallop with that fire that burned in you eyes Fly me with you, high

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